Wait til January for Penryn or not?

[MacSince1984]

4 cores = Core 2 Extreme

As several posters here have noted, there is no certainty about what will change with the next release of the MBP. However, as Apple is apparently buying up the majority of the first available Penryn chips, it's *possible* that we'll see a quad-core MBP in early 2008. What would be even more interesting is if the graphics horsepower of the MBP is beefed up a bit.... 256MB of graphics ram, for example. Has anybody read anything about that possibility?

Here's a quote directly from Intel's website:
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Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor
When more is better-with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled¹ performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 running at 3.0 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.

12 MB of total L2 cache
1333 MHz front side bus

 

[Squonk]

As several posters here have noted, there is no certainty about what will change with the next release of the MBP. However, as Apple is apparently buying up the majority of the first available Penryn chips, it's *possible* that we'll see a quad-core MBP in early 2008. What would be even more interesting is if the graphics horsepower of the MBP is beefed up a bit.... 256MB of graphics ram, for example. Has anybody read anything about that possibility?

Here's a quote directly from Intel's website:
---------------------------------------------

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor
When more is better-with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled¹ performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 running at 3.0 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.

12 MB of total L2 cache
1333 MHz front side bus

12MB of L2 cache and 1333MHz FSB, that would be the desktop processors, right?

 

[iW00t]

Those are desktop processors.

As for the assertion by you that Apple is buying up the first borns of every new Intel processor... oh, you mean the ones that are STILL being used in the Mac Pros right now?

Apple probably does that alright... just that they let it sit in their warehouses first until they sold out the last batch, because due to their greed their computers are selling SOOOOO slowly.

As several posters here have noted, there is no certainty about what will change with the next release of the MBP. However, as Apple is apparently buying up the majority of the first available Penryn chips, it's *possible* that we'll see a quad-core MBP in early 2008. What would be even more interesting is if the graphics horsepower of the MBP is beefed up a bit.... 256MB of graphics ram, for example. Has anybody read anything about that possibility?

Here's a quote directly from Intel's website:
---------------------------------------------

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor
When more is better-with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled¹ performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 running at 3.0 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.

12 MB of total L2 cache
1333 MHz front side bus